ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s
Fire, nails and "artist's shit" as the building blocks of a postwar artistic language.
In the late 1950s the German artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker resolved to start from a clean slate. They were joined by colleagues from around the world. Ten years after it came into being the ZERO network dissolved, but now over 40 artists, from Hans Haacke to Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, have come together again. Their works demonstrate how much land art, minimalism and conceptual art owe to ZERO.
